[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #30644: "wpautop" Enhancements

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#30644: "wpautop" Enhancements
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 Reporter:  stefanrz             |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement          |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal               |   Milestone:
Component:  Formatting           |     Version:
 Severity:  normal               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  wpautop 2nd-opinion  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by khag7):

 Ozz,

 Thanks for taking the time to respond.

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 >very temperamental

 Yeah you don't say! I've been around a while. Not a large contributor by
 any means, but I'm up to speed on the frustrations that come along with
 it.

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 I appreciate your thoughtful response, but skipping right to the end gives
 me the answer I need:
 >don't think its worth it fixing any edge cases in wpautop

 If it really is "on its way out", there's no reason to try to force a fix
 here just for sake of closing 39 old tickets.

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 I gather that the real problem, the real true reason we can't actually fix
 this awful awful function, comes in your last sentence:
 >...code that is ***expecting the edge case***

 It would be one thing to fix the edge cases. Unfortunately, we'll break
 the sites that are, intentionally or not, relying on those edge cases. How
 sad.

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 Thanks again for your time, I was kind of looking forward to really
 pushing this forward but I hate to sink time into something thats not
 likely to go forward, and I'll skip along to something else.

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 In the unlikely event someone here disagrees and wants to urge me to push
 forward, feel free, but as far as I can tell, the 39 tickets related to
 wpautop should be marked "wontfix" with an explanation that wpautop is
 frozen and no intent exists to solve any edge cases. Can I go ahead and do
 that? Who's blessing is needed on that?

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